Sensitivity of lake thermal and mixing dynamics to climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 295-305

  Butcher, Jonathan B ^a   Nover, Daniel ^b,c   Johnson, Thomas E ^b   Clark, Christopher M ^b  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c US Agency for International Development   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; MIXING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER QUALITY;

AVERAGE AIR TEMPERATURE; BOTTOM TEMPERATURE; COLD WATER FISHERY; CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LAKE SAND RESERVOIRS; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84925538260     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1326-1     Document Type: Article

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